Sorin Adam Matei
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On my way to work I listened to Menand’s (The New Yorker) review of a new and hip book, the Economy of prestige, about literary prizes. It discusses the mechanisms by which fame is created and propagated (literary awards are the negative…
Nielsen made the point a while back (1996) that writing on the web should be chunky, a thing that is generally known, but he added, a thing we are only dimly aware of, that the inverted pyramid convention still applies to this…
The web is for stories, says Hypergene, but not for individuals stories. It is for networked stories. They propose an “Amazon-style” storytelling process, where the articles are embedded in the flow of similar stories that surround them and are displayed according to…